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(1835 - 1914)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
From Wiota, he was appointed First Lieutenant of Company H, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry on 24 April 1861. He was promoted to Captain of Company B on 13 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 "before we'd fired a shot" and relieved in command by First Lieutenant Howard of Company D.
The rest of the War
On 9 June 1863 at Brandy Station, VA ...
I [Col Flood, 3rd Wisconsin] left one company of the Third Wisconsin and one from the Second Massachusetts (then with me), under command of Capt. Stevenson, Third Wisconsin Volunteers, and proceeded with the remainder of the Third Wisconsin to Col. Devin ... Meanwhile the force left under command of Capt. Stevenson was sent, by order of Gen. Ames, to Gen. Buford, on the right. By him they were ordered to dislodge a force of dismounted cavalry of the enemy, who were advantageously posted behind a stone wall in such position that they had repulsed several charges of our cavalry. By a circuitous movement they gained the same side of the wall with the enemy, moved immediately upon them under cover of a little rise of ground, and opened a deadly enfilading fire upon them. After replying impetuously for some minutes, the rebel force, several hundred strong, fled in confusion, leaving a number of dead and wounded on the field greater than that of the force which had thus driven them. Ten prisoners were also captured ...He was appointed Major on 3 November 1863 and Lieutenant Colonel 4 December 1863. He was again wounded, in action at Argyle Island, SC on 17 December 1864. He was honored by brevet to Colonel, US Volunteers on 13 March 1865, and mustered out with the Regiment on 18 July 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer back in Lafayette County, WI. He was President of the Regimental Association at its first annual meeting in 1890, then living in Wiota. He'd retired there by 1910.
References & notes
His service basics from Bryant.1 Antietam details from a letter Lt. Hinkley of Company D wrote a friend on 21 September 1862. The Brandy Station quote from the After-Action Report of Col. Martin Flood, 3rd Wisconsin of 16 June 1863. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is online from Findagrave.
He married Clara Ann Lutter (1845-1924) in November 1866 and they had 6 children.
Birth
08/24/1835; Wiota, WI
Death
03/17/1914; Darlington, WI; burial in Union Grove Cemetery, Darlington, WI
1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 407 - 409 [AotW citation 15143]